Carl Meinecke

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Carl Meinecke

Carl Meinecke (born June 16, 1873 in Breslau ; † September 12, 1949 in Hanover ) was a German chemist , electrical engineer and entrepreneur . He was one of the most influential industrialists in Silesia .

Life

Meinecke attended the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau . After graduating from high school, he began studying chemistry at the Technical University of Wroclaw . In 1892 he became active in the Corps Borussia Breslau . In his active time he served as a one-year volunteer with the field artillery regiment "von Peucker" (1st Silesian) No. 6 . As inactive he went to the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation in Frankfurt am Main . He spent the last semesters at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , which made him a Dr. phil. PhD . He then studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

H. Meinecke AG share from April 1929 with facsimile signature of Carl Meinecke as member of the board

On October 1, 1898, he took up a position as an engineer at AEG in Berlin. In the spring of 1900 he went to a bank in Paris for nine months . After his return, he joined his father's metal construction company in Wroclaw. Water meters became the company's main product, which was converted into a public company in 1897 . At the same time a new plant was built in Carlowitz . Before the First World War it employed around 500 people. From 1906 Meinecke concentrated the production exclusively on water knives. In order to promote international sales, he founded subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Russia. The Balkan countries, China, Japan and South America were supplied through our own representatives and Hamburg exporters.

Meinecke went to World War I as a lieutenant in 1914. He led ammunition columns and was dismissed as captain in 1917 . During the war, his company mainly manufactured fuses . After the Peace Treaty of Versailles , almost all foreign property was lost; however, international business relations could be restored in the 1920s. Further subsidiaries were established in Italy, Spain and Poland. With his corps brothers Hans-Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig and Kurt Fürer , Friedrich Eichberg brought him into the Silesian employers' associations in 1921/22 .

From 1932 to 1945 Meinecke headed the syndicate of German water knife manufacturers formed during the Great Depression. In 1937 a stake in Dreyer, Rosenkranz & Droop AG was acquired. During the Second World War , the production was again converted to war material. The end of the war meant the total loss of the Breslau plant and all subsidiaries. After a new start in Hanover (1946) under the management of Meinecke's son Walter and the establishment of a modern factory in Rethen (Leine) , production was further specialized. The family company was taken over by VDO-Tachometerwerke in 1972/1973 and then by Compagnie de Saint-Gobain .

From 1937 until his death, Meinecke was chairman of the old rulers of his suspended and displaced corps . Both sons and four grandchildren became Prussians in Breslau.

Honors and honorary positions

family

Meinecke's father was Heinrich Meinecke (1812–1890), who came to Breslau as a locksmith from Anhalt in 1843 and founded a factory. His mother Marie (1845–1898) was a granddaughter of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck . Carl Meinecke married Margarete Linde (1875–1933), sister of Franz Linde, member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg, in Berlin in 1901 . The marriage produced three sons. Like him, his sons Walter and Heinrich and four grandchildren became members of the Corps Borussia Breslau.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/650.
  2. ↑ a b c d Corps list of Borussia Breslau, No. 650.
  3. ↑ a b c Hans Jaeger:  Meinecke, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 661 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Dreyer, Rosenkranz & Droop
  5. ↑ Commerzbank annual report (1941)
personal data
SURNAME Meinecke, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur, industrialist in Silesia and Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1949
Place of death Hanover